Eliminating Messenger Spam

Sigh...

The dreaded NETSEND command.  It was an excellent idea for intranets behind a firewall.  An admin could message all the users on a network if necessary.  Unfortunately, Microsoft saw fit to add it to XP, with the factory setting on enabled.  The command has been available since NT 2000, as well as the ...ahem...feature.  As long as you know the IP address (or even IP range) of the computer you are performing the NETSEND on, you can hit anyone from anywhere on the internet.  Spammers knew about it for a long time.  They were merely waiting for enough XP users to come on board so that they could get the largest possible audience.   

By the way, spammers are selling software that takes advantage of NETSEND that makes it easy for a virtual novice with computers to send out thousands of these spams.  All they have to do is punch in the message and hit send.  I've seen an example of it.  With its really slick graphical user interface, the software looks quite professional.  Oh, did I mention this was another Ralfsky app.  Next time you see another message box hawking a weight loss program, remember that that service announcement was made possible by top spammer Ralph Ralfsky and the marketing wizards at Microsoft.

i remember seein a lil cartoon where a spammer was sent to hell, and had to do sumfin with ALL the spam emails he had sent, it was quite funny :P

:S i think he had to eat it, or use it as toilet roll, or sumfin :S i cant remember but it had like stacks and STACKS of paper behind him in hell :P i found it very funny

(simple things amuse simple minds )